Hiya friends,
This week: visibility, policy, and memory. Repository Dashboard gives you a home for all your repos. Rulesets finally enforce who reviews what. And I gave an AI agent an actual memory — here's how.
Fundamentals first. Let's go.
🚢 What Shipped
Repository Dashboard Your new home base for everything at once. github.com/repos shows all repositories you have access to across every org, with filtering and saved custom views. The GA release added two things: an Admin Access view that surfaces only repos where you have admin permissions, and command palette integration so you can jump straight to it with Cmd+K. If you've ever asked "wait, which repos do I even admin?" — this answers that.
Status: GA | All GitHub users | github.com/repos
Required reviewer rule — This is the ruleset feature that CODEOWNERS can't do: enforce specific team approvals on specific file patterns, across your entire org or enterprise. You define which teams must review which files before anything merges. The GA release added ! negation patterns — same syntax as .gitignore — so you can write precise rules without catching files you didn't mean to. Example: require two approvals from your security team on anything touching auth/, but exclude auth/tests/.
*.sql → data-platform-team (1 approval)
auth/** → security-team (2 approvals)
!auth/tests/ → excluded
This scales across repos and enforces policy, not just ownership. CODEOWNERS stays for ownership. This handles the rules.
Status: GA | GitHub Team, Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise Server
GitHub Projects: import by query + hierarchy improvements — Two things in one release. First: when creating a new project, you can now seed it with a search query instead of importing from a single repo. Same filters as the Issues page, including AND/OR and nested queries. Start a project with exactly the issues you want, not everything.
Second: hierarchy view shipped three quality-of-life fixes — create sub-issues inline from a project, drag and drop to reorder and reparent them, and sub-issue ordering now stays in sync between issues and projects.
Status: GA | All Projects users
📺 What I'm Watching
Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast (Mar 4, 2026) Boris built Claude Code and leads it at Anthropic. This episode covers how it actually works: parallel agents, PR structure, deterministic review patterns, context retrieval across large codebases. THE moment that stayed with me: when Gergely described Cat Wu, Claude Code's Product Lead, as more on the product side, Boris made sure to mention she's a former engineering manager and deeply technical. Boris didn't let that one go. Good.
🔧 What I'm Using
Supermemory: I wired it into Zo this week to fix a problem that had been bothering me: memory that doesn't survive a new chat tab. Supermemory gives you semantic search and knowledge graphs over anything you store, so context actually persists. The API is clean, setup was faster than I expected, and it's open source. I hosted founder Dhravya Shah on GitHub Open Source Friday - he's a brilliant 20-year-old solo founder tackling a frontier problem.
✨ This Week
Some very generous friends took my family skiing this weekend. I am, objectively, a terrible skier. But I showed up, fell down, got back up, and tried again — mostly because I'm trying to raise kids who know that's what you do. It didn't look pretty. Nobody cared. We all got back up. If you ever ski’d you know this photo is no Eddie the Eagle. What happened next I can still feel on my face 😩.
That's it. Three things that each solve a different fundamental: visibility (Repository Dashboard), policy enforcement (required reviewer rule), and project setup (Projects import). The boring stuff that keeps you shipping without incident. And yes, I work at GitHub — take my enthusiasm with appropriate context. But competition only makes these tools better. Claude Code lighting a fire under every CLI tool out there is good for all of us.
With gratitude, I'll see you next week,
Andrea
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